The shadow of the planet completely blanketed the earth.
Down below, the summoned beasts lifted their heads to look at Pluto looming in the heavens. A fraction of them let out enraged roars toward the sky, unleashing volley after volley of radiant beams.
Yet it was useless. When the beams struck Pluto, they produced no effect whatsoever.
As Pluto expanded, it slowly rotated. The surrounding air and clouds were instantly frozen solid, adhering to its surface and turning along with the celestial body's rotation.
Kill!
With a single thought from Xia Hai, Pluto descended from the heavens, crashing toward the earth trailed by brilliant blue light.
The instant Pluto collided with the ground, the earth shook violently. A devastating shockwave swept across the surroundings, forcing Shi Jie and the others to combine their strength and raise a barrier, barely managing to avoid being blown away.
Fortunately, this was merely a skill, not a genuine planetary collision.
Its true destructive power was concentrated within the epicenter of the impact rather than rippling outward, so the aftershocks subsided quickly.
Thirty seconds after the crash, Pluto automatically dissolved into energy and dissipated, leaving behind nothing but a colossal crater. Within it, not a trace remained; upon death, the summoned beasts had simply vanished into white light.
Up in the sky, Xia Hai breathed a slight sigh of relief at the sight. At least his dignity had been preserved.
However, just as he prepared to return to the city and rally the members of the Xia Hai Legion for a counteroffensive, a formidable aura surged from the distant sky. He immediately snapped his head toward its source.
A floating aircraft carrier over ten thousand meters in diameter drifted slowly into view, densely packed with countless summoned beasts.
Suddenly, golden light flashed from the muzzle at the center of the carrier. In the next instant, a massive light cannon blasted toward Xia Hai. The beam was thicker than his entire body, and the consequences of taking a direct hit would be unthinkable.
Xia Hai felt all the hairs on his body stand on end. Without hesitation, he executed Shifting Shadows, leaving behind a flurry of afterimages as he narrowly dodged the beam's trajectory.
In the distance, Shi Jie and the others had just dismissed their protective barrier when they caught sight of the dazzling brilliance.
"Fuck!"
Seeing the light cannon, Shi Jie instantly wanted to bolt.
Yet the moment light enters your eyes, it is already upon you!
*Rumble, rumble, rumble...*
The cannon beam crashed into a mountaintop, blowing the entire peak apart.
The violent energy did not form a mushroom cloud; instead, it whipped into a terrifying energy tornado that spun wildly in place, obliterating all signs of life.
Suspended in the air, Xia Hai broke into a cold sweat at the sight. It was simply horrifying.
Even though taking a direct hit probably wouldn't kill him, he would definitely be crippled. More importantly, enduring an attack of this magnitude would take an immense toll on his mind, leaving him without the stamina to keep fighting.
"Glacial Hell Storm!"
Xia Hai glared at the incoming carrier and hastily unleashed his skill.
A torrent of blue energy swept toward the carrier's direction. But at that moment, a summoned beast bearing a striking resemblance to Godzilla stepped forward onto the carrier deck, opened its maw, and unleashed a super-plasma beam.
The beam collided midair with the blue energy, slicing it clean in half.
*Not good!*
Xia Hai scrambled to reposition himself. In the very next second, the spot where he had just hovered was pierced through by the beam.
Down below in Longdan City, the players who had assumed Xia Hai's intervention would effortlessly crush the Sparkle Legion stood dumbfounded, staring up at him in disbelief.
At that moment, countless players felt their Dao hearts shatter. Even more quietly withdrew from the Xia Hai Legion, slipping into the innocent crowd of spectators as if they had never joined in the first place.
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The Queen Bee Livestream.
This stream had long held the number-one spot on the rankings.
It was always on the front lines of the drama. Even though the streamer never appeared on camera, the channel provided multiple perspectives, allowing drama-hungry viewers to savor the freshest, juiciest spectacles.
Right now, a staggering fifty million spectators filled the room. Initially, when everyone saw Xia Hai effortlessly annihilating the besieging beasts, the almighty mages in chat reached peak ecstasy, boldly proclaiming that mere numbers were useless against a single strike from a mage-lord.
Yet events had taken a sudden turn. Leaving aside those hard-to-kill beasts, the carrier had subsequently ferried in an untold number of summons, instantly reducing all the mages to stunned silence.
[Ah Kang: Does Yu Xian's summoning skill have zero cost or what?]
[Forbidden Lemon: Mage-lords, oh mage-lords, come out! Keep prancing, keep dancing! Hahahaha!]
[Beta Under Pressure: That carrier... I remember it seems to be a top boss from the Sen Continent named 'Tyrant of the Skies.' It looks like an aircraft carrier, but it's actually a top-tier Zombie King whose body fused with a carrier.]
[Arale: It really is the Tyrant of the Skies. What makes it most terrifying is its ability to control vast numbers of fighter jets, which essentially function like self-destructing flying swords. To make matters worse, it can produce them continuously. Once battle begins, facing it is like facing an entire army.]
[Bird Celestial: Holy crap, that's insane. Yu Xian can already create monster armies on his own, and now the Tyrant of the Skies can produce its own fighter jet fleet? How is anyone supposed to compete?]
Just then, the livestream feed switched from Longdan City to Jiangli City.
At first, the audience was baffled. What was there to see in Jiangli City? Yu Xian had holed up inside and refused to show his face.
Yet a moment later, everyone's eyes widened in sheer disbelief. What were they looking at?
They were looking at ghosts!
Scores of Yu Xians stood atop the city walls of Jiangli City, relentlessly activating summoning grimoires. On the ground outside, magic arrays glowed intensely as summoned beasts poured forth in ever-growing numbers.
[Going Big: What the fuck is going on?! Why are there so many Yu Xians?!]
[Soaring Dragon: One Yu Xian is terrifying enough. Now there are dozens of him? How are we supposed to play this game?!]
[Jin Douri: Those probably aren't Yu Xian. Look at their eyes—they're all silver! That reminds me of a monster... the Silver Mirror Ghost King!]
[Awesome Cow: The Silver Mirror Ghost King can copy a target's appearance and skills. That's definitely possible.]
[Summoner Is the Strongest: Some of you might not know this, but if a Silver Mirror Ghost King becomes a summoned beast, it doesn't even need to copy; it can directly use skills on the summoner's behalf. Of course, the downside is that every skill it casts consumes the summoner's own energy.]
[Kaka Dong: But what if the skill itself has no cost?]
Silence fell over the chat once more. The Silver Mirror Ghost King's copy skill was actually an inferior imitation that couldn't perfectly replicate a target's abilities.
However, if the summoner granted the ghost king permission to cast their own skills, it was an entirely different story.
And assuming Yu Xian's summoning skill truly cost nothing...
Then the dozens of Silver Mirror Ghost Kings lined along the ramparts were nothing short of a non-stop, round-the-clock factory churning out armies! As long as they remained standing, Yu Xian would possess an endless tide of forces to conquer cities and overrun territories!
In the end, a single realization dawned upon every spectator watching:
The only thing standing between Yu Xian and absolute invincibility was his level!
Chapter 527